Secretly in Chinese
secretly · HSK 5
悄悄
- 悄 quiet
他悄悄地走出了房间。 He quietly walked out of the room.
Other ways to say secretly
How do you say secretly in Chinese?
Secretly in Chinese is 悄悄 (qiāo qiāo). You can also say 偷偷 (tōu tōu), 暗 (àn), 偷 (tōu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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